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CvL'JSSBli, ! i. 65- - I
73rd Year " No 162 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, March 25, 1981 5 Sections - 58 Pages - 25 Cents
Reagan creates
emergency team
as Haig protests
r: WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Over the
opposition of Secretary of State Alex-ander
Haig, President Reagan Tues-day
created a " crisis management"
team headed by Vice President George
Bosh to coordinate foreign policy deci-sions
in an emergency.
-- White House press secretary Jim
Brady issued a statement confirming
Reagan's decision " to have the vice
president chair the administration's
' crisis management' team, as a part of
the National Security Council system."
- It was the first major dispute within
the new administration. Earlier in the
day, Haig told a House subcommittee
be was not pleased with the reported
White House plan to put Bush in charge
of coordinating critical decisions in the
foreign policy- makin- g field.
.-.-
." I read with interest, and, I suppose
alack of enthusiasm" the newspaper
report, Haig said.
At his briefing later, Brady was
asked whether Haig had resigned over
the issue. " I understand he is on
board," he replied. Later, he told re-porters
mat after the decision was
made, Reagan had telephoned Haig
about it and said the secretary remains
Von board."
" A couple of hours earlier, Brady had
said the question of a " crisis manage-ment"
panel was still under discussion
and an announcement would be made
later this week. He told reporters Rea-gan
made the decision late Tuesday.
.. Brady said the purpose of the team is
'' to coordinate and control all appro-priate
federal resources in responding
to emergency situations both foreign
and domestic."
He said the choice of Bush was
guided " in large measure by the fact
. that management of crises has. tradi-tionally
and appropriately been
' done within the White House."
, " The type of incident that might be
' involved ranges from an isolated ter-rorist
attack to an attack upon United
States territory by a hostile power," he
said.
" During any emergency," Brady
added, " the president would of course
be available to make all critical deci-sions
and to chair the crisis manage-ment
team as his presence may be
needed.
" Vice President Bush's role is to
chair the team in the absence of the
president. Of great importance, he will
also engage in forward planning for
emergency responses, develop options
for presidential consideration, and
take the lead in the implementation of
those decisions."
Under questioning in the subcommit-tee
earlier, Haig acknowledged the
president has both the " prerogative
and obligation" to organize his nation-al
security structure as he wishes.
" But I don't think a decision has
been made on this issue," he said. " At
least, it has not been discussed with me
if one has been made. In that case, that
would pose another set of problems. "
Haig told the subcommittee he be-lieves
foreign policy responsibility
should rest with those who, like him-self,
" have undergone the confirma-tion
process with the legislation and
who traditionally the American people
have held responsible under that proc-ess."
Allen meets with Reagan every
' morning to brief him on national secu-rity
matters. He also coordinates re-ports
from the State Department, the
CIA and Defense Department for the
president.
Reagan's decision was made after
widespread reports of fending over for-eign
policy roles. '
There were indications that Rea-gan's
top aide Edwin Meese was in-strumental
in creating the new panel to
maintain foreign policy power in the
White House.
Brady also said " as of today" Haig,
Allen and Defense Secretary Caspar
Weinberger will informally pass
around their speeches to each other.
Businessmen, watch it:
Kwitny is on the loose
Boston Globe
If the phone rings and it is Jonathan
Kwitny of The Wall Street Journal,
watch out. That is, if you've got any-thing
to hide. If you don't, sit back and
enjoy the work of perhaps the most
engaging and consistently interesting
investigative reporter in business jour-nalism.
Itwitny, 39, one of the handful of
brand- nam- e reporters at the WSJ, is
Insight
f ..
possessor of a hot hand: It was he who
put the blocks to National Security Ad-viser
Richard Allen over his represen-tation
of Japanese trade interests in a
Pjage 1 story just days before the elec-tion.
( Allen stepped down as Reagan
adviser, amid the charges of conflict of
interest, though only until after the
election.)
And for several compelling dis-patches
from Afghanistan just after
the Russian invasion last year, Kwitny
has a reasonable crack at the Pulitzer
Prize for foreign reporting.
-- He's also author of four fine books on
bad business: " The Fountain Pen Con-spiracy"
about the early 1970s swin-dles
surrounding the Bank of Sark;
IThe MuUendore Murder Case," about
the murder of the owner of the biggest
family ranch in Oklahoma, four days
before the grace period on his huge in
surance policy expired; " Shakedown,"
a novel, and " Vicious Circles," a com-pulsively
readable compendium on the
Mafia. The Mafia book sold nearly 30,- 00- 0,
a handsome sale for a big, thick
book, and the paperback- ha- s just been
published.
More important, however, Kwitny
has an apparently unending supply of
scoops, yarns and fresh outrages to de-scribe.
Unlike other big guns such as
Adam Smith, Chris Welles, John
Brooks and Martin Mayer, Kwitny is a
working news reporter, digging up sto-ries
and bringing them back to a daily
paper.
The result is a growing cult of Kwit-ny
addicts. The typical Kwitny story
has plenty of duplicity, a Utile sex,
some threat of violence ( usually under-stated),
lots of local color, often a fun-ny
name or two, at least a couple of un-expected
turns and always a
beginning, a middle and an end. A
Kwitny story is a little wacky. It has a
moral. And the villain nearly always is
guilty.
In other words, somewhere between
John McPhee and Seymour Hersh is
Kwitny. (" That's right!" he said. " In
the phone book, it's after H and before
M.")
It was Kwitny, for example, who dug
up " in two battered packing cartons in
a federal warehouse near Chicago" the
evidence of the trial 30 years ago in
which General Motors Corp. and a few
other big companies were convicted of
( See M. U. GRAD, Page 22A)
Edward Miller is conducting a frustrating search
Dean Edward Miller tried to locate information about his type cancer, but he came up short.
Miller, who calls himself an information oriented person, is still looking. Meanwhile, he has to
Rely on opinions, faith and trust
ByKurtWimmer
Missourian staff writer '
When Edward Miller discovered he had cancer
last year, his first instinct as a professional li-- bra- rian
was to gather information about his dis-ease.
To his distress, he didn't find much.
This was a dilemma for Miller. As dean of the
University's School of Library Science, Miller ad-mits
he is an information- oriente- d person. Without
specific information upon which to base a decision,
he said he couldn't decide which type of treatment
to undergo.
" I really felt like I'd been raped," he said. " I had
no control over what was happening to me."
Miller, 56, went ahead with the operation, finally
accepting his doctor's opinion on faith. He also de-cided
to accept six weeks of radiation treatments
on the advice of his doctor.
" My biggest beef with the whole thing is that ' I
had no opportunity to get appropriate information,"
he said. " I couldn't make a rational decision."
Since his operation, Miller has continued his
search for information about cancer. Because of his
position in the library school, he has more access to
information than most people do.
But, he says he has continued to come up nearly
empty.
" There's practically nothing in the way of com-parative
studies of treatments," he said. Miller
went through the conventional channels: libraries,
journals and his doctors. He even ran a computer
search of medical materials that most non- medic- al
people don't have access to.
His doctor, Dr. Nestor Canoy, a radiation onco-logist
at Boone County Hospital, said that informa-tion
on Miller's cancer isnt available. " There real--
ly is none,' he said.
" You just have to depend on the doctor you're
consulting with. The surgeon knows a lot about can-cer.
I know a lot about cancer.
" He ( Miller) had a cancer that came out in a
lymph node, and nobody knows where it comes
from," Canoy said. " He doesn't know. I don't know.
Nobody knows."
But, for a person dedicated to cataloging infor-mation
on a wide variety of subjects, Miller isn't
one who easily accepts a decision on faith alone.
And, he finds it difficult to believe that his doctors
didn't have more data for their decision making
than he had. " The doctor must have had some in-formation
to guide the radiation, and I'd like to be
privy to that information.
" I'd like to know how he based that decision," he
( See DEAN, Page 22A)
Reagan backs subminimum wage
New York Times
WASHINGTON The Reagan ad-ministration
said Tuesday it supported
the concept of a lower minimum wage
for young workers to help reduce teen-age
unemployment but would not back
any specific legislation at this time.
In testimony before the Labor sub-committee
of the Senate Committee on
Labor and Human Resources, Secre-tary
of Labor Raymond J. Donovan
said that the serious problem of unem-ployment
among young people re-quired
a broad strategy and that a
youth subminimum was not a " cu- real- l."
The decision to hold off on support of
a subminimum wage for youth was
made at a Cabinet meeting Monday,
according to Senate staff sources. The
rationale reportedly was that the ad-ministration's
first priority is enact--
But would not support wage bill now
ment of its economic program and that
it does not need a fight over the lower
minimum at this time.
Elements of the business commu-nity,
which has been pressing for years
for a lower minumum wage for youth,
have been somewhat lukewarm in
their support recently. According to
Senate staff aides, a number of busi-ness
leaders fear that a higher general
minimum wage, would be demanded
as the " tradeoff" for the subminimum
for teenagers.
In fact, several Democrats on the
subcommittee, including Edward M.
Kennedy of Massachusetts, the rank-ing
minority member, and Harrison A.
Williams Jr. of New Jersey, said Tues-day
that the Senate should consider
raising the general minimum wage be-cause
its purchasing power has been
seriously eroded by inflation.
Supporters of the lower minimum
say it is needed to reduce unemploy-ment
among young people. Sen. Don
Nickles, ROkla., and chairman of the
subcommittee said that there are to-day
1.6 million unemployed teenagers
and that 35 percent of all minority
youthnave no jobs.
Nickles, who has introduced legis-lation
to exempt all workers under age
18 from the minimum wage require-ment,
said when opening Tuesday's
hearing, " it is time for innovation and
institutional changes which will allow
an unrestrained free enterprise system
to increase employment opportunities
for youth."
Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R- Ut- ah, and
chairman of the full committee, has in-troduced
a bill that would establish a
youth wage at 75 percent of the current
minimum. Another Republican sen-ator,
Charles H. Percy of Illinois has
introduced legislation establishing a
youth wage at 85 percent of the legal
minimum. Both bills would require
payment of the full minimum after six
months.
" The minimum wage ties the hands
of both the employer and young job
seeker," Hatch said at the hearing,
adding, " we have removed the bottom
rungs from the ladder of employ-ment."
jCounty silent on housing agency's charge
By Wendy S. Tai
Mswurian staff writer
' Boone County Court judges and the
county prosecuting attorney are keep-ing
mum after Tuesday's half- ho- ur
dosed session on a $ 15,310 dispute with
the Housing Development Agency of
Mid- Missou- ri. yHDAMM, a . Columbia- base- d, non-profit
organization that helps low- incom- e
people weatherize homes and
trains disadvantaged youth for con- Tsfructi- on
jobs, claims the county owes
the money for construction and materi- a- r
costs. The county hired the federally
funded agency between August 1979
. and March 1980 to weatherize some
low- UKo- me housing and has paid a por-tion
of the bill.
7: J
In a letter the court received March
9, HDAMM Director Edson " Butch"
Griggs said his agency will sue the
county if the court does not respond
within 30 days to HDAMM's contention
the county owes additional money.
" It has been about a year since we
billed them for work we completed in
early 1980," Griggs said. " And they've
refused to pay. We're not in the loan
business, so why should the county
keep our money?"
He said he thinks the county will pay
the money in question since it covers
costs his agency incurred during its
contract with the county.
The court hired. HDAMM in August
1979 to use a $ 119,000 block grant from
the federal Department of Housing and
Urban development to renovate about
27 homes.
HDAM and the county mutually ter-minated
the contract in March 1980 af-ter
six months and completion of five
rehabilitation projects. Griggs said
HDAMM walked away from the con-tract
with a series of financial en-tanglements.
Court officials would not comment
on the potential suit Tuesday, but they
contended in March 1980 that some of
HDAMM's fees were unjust and not in
accordance with federal guidelines.
The relationship between the Boone
County Court and HDAMM had been
turbulent before March 1980. Accord-ing
to Griggs, in 1979 the agency inad-vertently
double- bille- d the county, and
the county has not forgotten. "
" The agency's records -- and files
i
were disorganized when I arrived in
February ( 1980)," Griggs said. " In the
mess- u- p of paperwork, the agency did
make mistakes and admitted wrong.
But since that time, the county court
has held a negative attitude towards
us."
Griggs said, even after the double- billin- g
incident, HDAMM continued re-habilitation
projects, but the county re-fused
to pay costs accrued in 1980,
some of which exceded earlier esti-mates.
Griggs' said HDAMM agreed last
year to receive $ 13,500 of the $ 15,310
payment, since around $ 1,500 of the
charges was questionable under feder-al
guidelines. HDAMM is receiving
federal funding this year through the
Missouri Department of Natural Re
sources to weatherize 515 homes, de-spite
a negative recommendation by
the Mid- Misso- uri Council of Govern-ments.
The council, which reviews requests
for federal money from an eight- count- y
region, cited administrative costs
and sloppy construction as reasons for
the negative evaluation.
In other business Tuesday, the court
approved the 1980 Recorder of Deeds
report submitted by County Recorder
Bettie Johnson.
The court also approved a prelimi-nary
study of installing security and
fire alarms in Boone County Court-house.
The alarm systems, which will
cost about $ 11,000, would be connected
to the Boone County Sheriffs office.
.)
In town today
7 pjn. Forum, " The Future of
the Democratic Party," Windsor
Lounge on the Stephens College
campus.
7: 30 pan. Theater, " The Effect
of Gamma Rays on Man- In- The- Mo- on
Marigolds," Warehouse
Theatre on the Stephens College
campus. Tickets are $ 1.75 for
students and $ 3 for adults.
Index
Business 19
Classified 15- 1- 8
Theater 21
Opinion 4
Weather . . jj

STATS HLVrICV!, rJCITY
j: . H1TT & LCV. r: Y :'-- T . r'?' V
CvL'JSSBli, ! i. 65- - I
73rd Year " No 162 Good Morning! It's Wednesday, March 25, 1981 5 Sections - 58 Pages - 25 Cents
Reagan creates
emergency team
as Haig protests
r: WASHINGTON ( UPI) - Over the
opposition of Secretary of State Alex-ander
Haig, President Reagan Tues-day
created a " crisis management"
team headed by Vice President George
Bosh to coordinate foreign policy deci-sions
in an emergency.
-- White House press secretary Jim
Brady issued a statement confirming
Reagan's decision " to have the vice
president chair the administration's
' crisis management' team, as a part of
the National Security Council system."
- It was the first major dispute within
the new administration. Earlier in the
day, Haig told a House subcommittee
be was not pleased with the reported
White House plan to put Bush in charge
of coordinating critical decisions in the
foreign policy- makin- g field.
.-.-
." I read with interest, and, I suppose
alack of enthusiasm" the newspaper
report, Haig said.
At his briefing later, Brady was
asked whether Haig had resigned over
the issue. " I understand he is on
board," he replied. Later, he told re-porters
mat after the decision was
made, Reagan had telephoned Haig
about it and said the secretary remains
Von board."
" A couple of hours earlier, Brady had
said the question of a " crisis manage-ment"
panel was still under discussion
and an announcement would be made
later this week. He told reporters Rea-gan
made the decision late Tuesday.
.. Brady said the purpose of the team is
'' to coordinate and control all appro-priate
federal resources in responding
to emergency situations both foreign
and domestic."
He said the choice of Bush was
guided " in large measure by the fact
. that management of crises has. tradi-tionally
and appropriately been
' done within the White House."
, " The type of incident that might be
' involved ranges from an isolated ter-rorist
attack to an attack upon United
States territory by a hostile power," he
said.
" During any emergency," Brady
added, " the president would of course
be available to make all critical deci-sions
and to chair the crisis manage-ment
team as his presence may be
needed.
" Vice President Bush's role is to
chair the team in the absence of the
president. Of great importance, he will
also engage in forward planning for
emergency responses, develop options
for presidential consideration, and
take the lead in the implementation of
those decisions."
Under questioning in the subcommit-tee
earlier, Haig acknowledged the
president has both the " prerogative
and obligation" to organize his nation-al
security structure as he wishes.
" But I don't think a decision has
been made on this issue," he said. " At
least, it has not been discussed with me
if one has been made. In that case, that
would pose another set of problems. "
Haig told the subcommittee he be-lieves
foreign policy responsibility
should rest with those who, like him-self,
" have undergone the confirma-tion
process with the legislation and
who traditionally the American people
have held responsible under that proc-ess."
Allen meets with Reagan every
' morning to brief him on national secu-rity
matters. He also coordinates re-ports
from the State Department, the
CIA and Defense Department for the
president.
Reagan's decision was made after
widespread reports of fending over for-eign
policy roles. '
There were indications that Rea-gan's
top aide Edwin Meese was in-strumental
in creating the new panel to
maintain foreign policy power in the
White House.
Brady also said " as of today" Haig,
Allen and Defense Secretary Caspar
Weinberger will informally pass
around their speeches to each other.
Businessmen, watch it:
Kwitny is on the loose
Boston Globe
If the phone rings and it is Jonathan
Kwitny of The Wall Street Journal,
watch out. That is, if you've got any-thing
to hide. If you don't, sit back and
enjoy the work of perhaps the most
engaging and consistently interesting
investigative reporter in business jour-nalism.
Itwitny, 39, one of the handful of
brand- nam- e reporters at the WSJ, is
Insight
f ..
possessor of a hot hand: It was he who
put the blocks to National Security Ad-viser
Richard Allen over his represen-tation
of Japanese trade interests in a
Pjage 1 story just days before the elec-tion.
( Allen stepped down as Reagan
adviser, amid the charges of conflict of
interest, though only until after the
election.)
And for several compelling dis-patches
from Afghanistan just after
the Russian invasion last year, Kwitny
has a reasonable crack at the Pulitzer
Prize for foreign reporting.
-- He's also author of four fine books on
bad business: " The Fountain Pen Con-spiracy"
about the early 1970s swin-dles
surrounding the Bank of Sark;
IThe MuUendore Murder Case," about
the murder of the owner of the biggest
family ranch in Oklahoma, four days
before the grace period on his huge in
surance policy expired; " Shakedown,"
a novel, and " Vicious Circles," a com-pulsively
readable compendium on the
Mafia. The Mafia book sold nearly 30,- 00- 0,
a handsome sale for a big, thick
book, and the paperback- ha- s just been
published.
More important, however, Kwitny
has an apparently unending supply of
scoops, yarns and fresh outrages to de-scribe.
Unlike other big guns such as
Adam Smith, Chris Welles, John
Brooks and Martin Mayer, Kwitny is a
working news reporter, digging up sto-ries
and bringing them back to a daily
paper.
The result is a growing cult of Kwit-ny
addicts. The typical Kwitny story
has plenty of duplicity, a Utile sex,
some threat of violence ( usually under-stated),
lots of local color, often a fun-ny
name or two, at least a couple of un-expected
turns and always a
beginning, a middle and an end. A
Kwitny story is a little wacky. It has a
moral. And the villain nearly always is
guilty.
In other words, somewhere between
John McPhee and Seymour Hersh is
Kwitny. (" That's right!" he said. " In
the phone book, it's after H and before
M.")
It was Kwitny, for example, who dug
up " in two battered packing cartons in
a federal warehouse near Chicago" the
evidence of the trial 30 years ago in
which General Motors Corp. and a few
other big companies were convicted of
( See M. U. GRAD, Page 22A)
Edward Miller is conducting a frustrating search
Dean Edward Miller tried to locate information about his type cancer, but he came up short.
Miller, who calls himself an information oriented person, is still looking. Meanwhile, he has to
Rely on opinions, faith and trust
ByKurtWimmer
Missourian staff writer '
When Edward Miller discovered he had cancer
last year, his first instinct as a professional li-- bra- rian
was to gather information about his dis-ease.
To his distress, he didn't find much.
This was a dilemma for Miller. As dean of the
University's School of Library Science, Miller ad-mits
he is an information- oriente- d person. Without
specific information upon which to base a decision,
he said he couldn't decide which type of treatment
to undergo.
" I really felt like I'd been raped," he said. " I had
no control over what was happening to me."
Miller, 56, went ahead with the operation, finally
accepting his doctor's opinion on faith. He also de-cided
to accept six weeks of radiation treatments
on the advice of his doctor.
" My biggest beef with the whole thing is that ' I
had no opportunity to get appropriate information,"
he said. " I couldn't make a rational decision."
Since his operation, Miller has continued his
search for information about cancer. Because of his
position in the library school, he has more access to
information than most people do.
But, he says he has continued to come up nearly
empty.
" There's practically nothing in the way of com-parative
studies of treatments," he said. Miller
went through the conventional channels: libraries,
journals and his doctors. He even ran a computer
search of medical materials that most non- medic- al
people don't have access to.
His doctor, Dr. Nestor Canoy, a radiation onco-logist
at Boone County Hospital, said that informa-tion
on Miller's cancer isnt available. " There real--
ly is none,' he said.
" You just have to depend on the doctor you're
consulting with. The surgeon knows a lot about can-cer.
I know a lot about cancer.
" He ( Miller) had a cancer that came out in a
lymph node, and nobody knows where it comes
from," Canoy said. " He doesn't know. I don't know.
Nobody knows."
But, for a person dedicated to cataloging infor-mation
on a wide variety of subjects, Miller isn't
one who easily accepts a decision on faith alone.
And, he finds it difficult to believe that his doctors
didn't have more data for their decision making
than he had. " The doctor must have had some in-formation
to guide the radiation, and I'd like to be
privy to that information.
" I'd like to know how he based that decision," he
( See DEAN, Page 22A)
Reagan backs subminimum wage
New York Times
WASHINGTON The Reagan ad-ministration
said Tuesday it supported
the concept of a lower minimum wage
for young workers to help reduce teen-age
unemployment but would not back
any specific legislation at this time.
In testimony before the Labor sub-committee
of the Senate Committee on
Labor and Human Resources, Secre-tary
of Labor Raymond J. Donovan
said that the serious problem of unem-ployment
among young people re-quired
a broad strategy and that a
youth subminimum was not a " cu- real- l."
The decision to hold off on support of
a subminimum wage for youth was
made at a Cabinet meeting Monday,
according to Senate staff sources. The
rationale reportedly was that the ad-ministration's
first priority is enact--
But would not support wage bill now
ment of its economic program and that
it does not need a fight over the lower
minimum at this time.
Elements of the business commu-nity,
which has been pressing for years
for a lower minumum wage for youth,
have been somewhat lukewarm in
their support recently. According to
Senate staff aides, a number of busi-ness
leaders fear that a higher general
minimum wage, would be demanded
as the " tradeoff" for the subminimum
for teenagers.
In fact, several Democrats on the
subcommittee, including Edward M.
Kennedy of Massachusetts, the rank-ing
minority member, and Harrison A.
Williams Jr. of New Jersey, said Tues-day
that the Senate should consider
raising the general minimum wage be-cause
its purchasing power has been
seriously eroded by inflation.
Supporters of the lower minimum
say it is needed to reduce unemploy-ment
among young people. Sen. Don
Nickles, ROkla., and chairman of the
subcommittee said that there are to-day
1.6 million unemployed teenagers
and that 35 percent of all minority
youthnave no jobs.
Nickles, who has introduced legis-lation
to exempt all workers under age
18 from the minimum wage require-ment,
said when opening Tuesday's
hearing, " it is time for innovation and
institutional changes which will allow
an unrestrained free enterprise system
to increase employment opportunities
for youth."
Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R- Ut- ah, and
chairman of the full committee, has in-troduced
a bill that would establish a
youth wage at 75 percent of the current
minimum. Another Republican sen-ator,
Charles H. Percy of Illinois has
introduced legislation establishing a
youth wage at 85 percent of the legal
minimum. Both bills would require
payment of the full minimum after six
months.
" The minimum wage ties the hands
of both the employer and young job
seeker," Hatch said at the hearing,
adding, " we have removed the bottom
rungs from the ladder of employ-ment."
jCounty silent on housing agency's charge
By Wendy S. Tai
Mswurian staff writer
' Boone County Court judges and the
county prosecuting attorney are keep-ing
mum after Tuesday's half- ho- ur
dosed session on a $ 15,310 dispute with
the Housing Development Agency of
Mid- Missou- ri. yHDAMM, a . Columbia- base- d, non-profit
organization that helps low- incom- e
people weatherize homes and
trains disadvantaged youth for con- Tsfructi- on
jobs, claims the county owes
the money for construction and materi- a- r
costs. The county hired the federally
funded agency between August 1979
. and March 1980 to weatherize some
low- UKo- me housing and has paid a por-tion
of the bill.
7: J
In a letter the court received March
9, HDAMM Director Edson " Butch"
Griggs said his agency will sue the
county if the court does not respond
within 30 days to HDAMM's contention
the county owes additional money.
" It has been about a year since we
billed them for work we completed in
early 1980," Griggs said. " And they've
refused to pay. We're not in the loan
business, so why should the county
keep our money?"
He said he thinks the county will pay
the money in question since it covers
costs his agency incurred during its
contract with the county.
The court hired. HDAMM in August
1979 to use a $ 119,000 block grant from
the federal Department of Housing and
Urban development to renovate about
27 homes.
HDAM and the county mutually ter-minated
the contract in March 1980 af-ter
six months and completion of five
rehabilitation projects. Griggs said
HDAMM walked away from the con-tract
with a series of financial en-tanglements.
Court officials would not comment
on the potential suit Tuesday, but they
contended in March 1980 that some of
HDAMM's fees were unjust and not in
accordance with federal guidelines.
The relationship between the Boone
County Court and HDAMM had been
turbulent before March 1980. Accord-ing
to Griggs, in 1979 the agency inad-vertently
double- bille- d the county, and
the county has not forgotten. "
" The agency's records -- and files
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were disorganized when I arrived in
February ( 1980)," Griggs said. " In the
mess- u- p of paperwork, the agency did
make mistakes and admitted wrong.
But since that time, the county court
has held a negative attitude towards
us."
Griggs said, even after the double- billin- g
incident, HDAMM continued re-habilitation
projects, but the county re-fused
to pay costs accrued in 1980,
some of which exceded earlier esti-mates.
Griggs' said HDAMM agreed last
year to receive $ 13,500 of the $ 15,310
payment, since around $ 1,500 of the
charges was questionable under feder-al
guidelines. HDAMM is receiving
federal funding this year through the
Missouri Department of Natural Re
sources to weatherize 515 homes, de-spite
a negative recommendation by
the Mid- Misso- uri Council of Govern-ments.
The council, which reviews requests
for federal money from an eight- count- y
region, cited administrative costs
and sloppy construction as reasons for
the negative evaluation.
In other business Tuesday, the court
approved the 1980 Recorder of Deeds
report submitted by County Recorder
Bettie Johnson.
The court also approved a prelimi-nary
study of installing security and
fire alarms in Boone County Court-house.
The alarm systems, which will
cost about $ 11,000, would be connected
to the Boone County Sheriffs office.
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In town today
7 pjn. Forum, " The Future of
the Democratic Party," Windsor
Lounge on the Stephens College
campus.
7: 30 pan. Theater, " The Effect
of Gamma Rays on Man- In- The- Mo- on
Marigolds," Warehouse
Theatre on the Stephens College
campus. Tickets are $ 1.75 for
students and $ 3 for adults.
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Business 19
Classified 15- 1- 8
Theater 21
Opinion 4
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